Leveraging IoT Technologies for the Future Smart Agriculture
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Internet of Things".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 May 2025 | Viewed by 5546
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Interests: Internet of Things; smart agriculture; smart cities; big stream; data
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Interests: Internet of Things; smart agriculture; software-defined networking; big stream; security
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, a digital transformation has influenced several aspects of our society, and has also positively impacted agriculture, which is integrating innovative technologies and solutions, evolving towards the digital agriculture (or Agriculture 4.0) paradigm. Considering this context, the Internet of Things (IoT) technologies represent one of the key and enabling aspects for ensuring connectivity and thus allowing on field continuous real-time monitoring through heterogeneous wireless or wired sensors networks.
In this historical moment, with the indiscriminate use of pesticides, climate change, reduction of water supplies, depletion of resources, as well as loss of soil quality, which are already limiting the amount of food produced by the world’s farmlands, it is necessary to identify the best approaches to tackle these challenges. Furthermore, reliable detection, accurate identification, and proper quantification of pathogens, diseases and other factors affecting plants and the whole environment health are critical and need to be kept under control in order to reduce economic overheads, trade disruptions, and human health risks.
Agriculture needs to be enhanced by new technologies in order to make it sustainable in a smart way. Leveraging on the integration of these smart technologies in crops and plants managements, a plenitude of new platforms, services and analytics are emerging. Some examples are agriculture-specific Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs), Decision Support Systems (DSSs), Machine Learning-based and Artificial Intelligence-oriented predictive models, resource optimization and monitoring systems, certification layers, and more in general, the acquisition of a new knowledge from the field to regional or national scale.
This Special Issue thus encourages authors, from academia and industry to submit new research exploring developments, advancements and novel insights into the state of the art, the challenges and the approaches in the development of IoT infrastructures for enabling new services in the field of smart agriculture with reference to vegetables and plants management.
Some topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Smart agriculture and agriculture 4.0;
- IoT sensors and sensors networks deployment for smart agriculture;
- IoT technologies integration for agriculture 4.0;
- IoT architectures and infrastructures for agriculture 4.0;
- CPSs for smart agriculture;
- Blockchain technologies applied to smart agriculture;
- ML-based and AI-oriented technologies applied to for smart agriculture;
- Cloud computing for smart agriculture;
- Edge computing for smart agriculture;
- Sustainable resources management and optimization in smart agriculture;
- Farm services and oriented applications for vegetable agri-food systems;
- Data-aware networking in smart agriculture;
- Modeling and metrics for sensing in smart agriculture;
- Implementation and prototypes of WSN agriculture showcases;
- Data security by user authentication and data encryption;
- Security by design philosophy in agriculture;
- Cost-effective sensor development and deployment for smart agriculture.
Dr. Laura Belli
Dr. Luca Davoli
Prof. Dr. Tommaso Ganino
Dr. Ilaria Marchioni
Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Vignali
Guest Editors
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